Dynamic pricing has become a common form of electricity tariff, where the price of electricity varies in real time based on the realized electricity supply and demand. Hence, optimizing industrial operations to benefit from periods with low electricity prices is vital to maximizing the benefits...

With the rising fuel costs, ride sharing is becoming a common mode of transportation. Sharing taxis which has been prominent in several developing countries is also becoming common in several cities around the world. Sharing taxis presents several advantages as it minimizes vacant seats in cars...

We propose a simple exact algorithm for solving the generalized assignment problem. Our contribution is twofold: we reformulate the optimization problem into a sequence of decision problems, and we apply variable-fixing rules to solve these effectively. The decision problems are solved by a...

Although the Lagrangian method is a powerful dual search method in integer programming, it often fail to identify the optimal solution of the primal problem. In this paper, a quasi dual formulation is proposed for bounded integer programming. This formulation possesses an asymptotic strong...